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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:27 am 
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I polished off A Dance With Dragons (second longest in the series) in a week >>

i was super excited for it ok <<




gonna go to the liiiiiiiibrary this week! never been to this one. dragging kyle along to get home some audiobooks. he doesn't read anymore but he's expressed interest in listening to audiobooks on the way to/from work in lieu of spending his free time reading and i'm taking what i can get :P so many books i want him to read so we can talk about them haha

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:56 pm 
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I have finished House of Leaves.
Now I just need to sort out all these theories and interpretations blowing around my head before I can resume life as a normal human being.

Youre in the Labyrinth too now. And the Minotaur is coming for you

Yeah, as if some stupid book could doom me to a life of loneliness and madness. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go re-read it to find evidence that can support my Zampàno-is-johnny's-father theory

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:54 am 
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Finally got to where Strider shows up in my re-read of Fellowship of the Ring, you know, after 10 chapters.

It's like an RPG where you have to sit through a bunch of boring tutorial levels and then go through like 10 of the easiests levels/quests imaginable before the story starts getting good. It's not like I didn't find the misadventures of a party of low-level halflings interesting, but now I remember why everyone complains about the first book.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:57 pm 
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I'm in the middle of the first draft of On the Road right now and wow I love this

especially where they spent a couple of days with William S Burroughs that was so cool

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:24 pm 
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it's been ages since I read any dystopian fiction so I just finished reading The Running Man by Stephen King and it was really good.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:28 am 
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The guy Kyle co-leased from last year gave him a big stack of books to read when he moved. Kyle doesn't read so we just stuck them on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf until the other day when I got tired of the shelf looking messy and organized it. Turns out these are Michael Chrichton books and they look pretty good. Started reading one 3-in-1 book if for no other reason than it contains Sphere which I've wanted to read for a while >>

Of course Sphere is the middle book so right now I'm reading the first one, Congo, and it's interesting so far. I like how it's apparently based off of a thing that actually happened!

Unfortunately not one of the three compilation volumes contains Jurassic Park. I'm so disappointed.

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 Post subject: it has an actual talking communicating parrot
PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:39 pm 
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Do you have Chrichton's Next? It got shit reviews for being somewhat more political than his others, but I thought it was a fun read.

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Oh Science of Discworld, what can't you teach me?

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 Post subject: fat and craven yes that is me
PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:19 pm 
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Samwell Tarly is the first fictional character that I've truly identified with in a long while.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
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I've finished 3 books in just as many days. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman and The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska by John Green.

Tell me how to hold all these feels. Will John Green ever write a book where characters I like don't die?!

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:30 am 
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^ probably not lol



i have been trucking through my 3-in-one book and im on the last one now. I REALLY liked Congo...then it just kinda. fell? like the end was just like oh ok its over now lol we're cool. there wasn't really a climax

sphere was great though. im glad i finally got to read it

now i'm on eaters of the dead. interesting so far - i like how it's written in first person and set up like a journal. i think i'm gonna be disappointed at its length though - it's probably only barely longer than a novella.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:08 am 
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I have finally managed to buy and read This Book is Full of Spiders and while it's pretty different from John Dies, I think it's just as great and the three different narrators make up for all the gruesome-slapstick humor Spiders lacked.

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 Post subject: great time freezes how imaginative
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Yeah, Spiders was more of a standalone horror story, while the first book was kind of a sillier anthology-like setup. Both good, but I was somewhat disappointed that the soy sauce was handled so differently.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:13 am 
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To Be or Not To Be is being shipped next week, did anyone beside me pledge to the kickstarter?

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
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I didn't pledge to the kickstarter but I did buy a signed copy at comic con on friday.

It is so good

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